A look back at history on this date
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For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1.
The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Republic, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year.
The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar.
Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor.
Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II (probable).
Emperor Taizong of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty captures Daliang, ending the dynasty and empire of the Later Jin.
Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum) (probable).
Saint Telemachus tries to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and is stoned to death by the crowd. This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights.
The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.
Ali al-Ridha
8th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam (died 818)
Born 766Pope Alexander VI (died 1503)
Pope Alexander VI (died 1503)
Born 1431Lorenzo de' Medici
Italian politician (died 1492)
Born 1449Sigismund I the Old
Polish king (died 1548)
Born 1467Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss pastor and theologian (died 1531)
Born 1484Henry
Duke of Cornwall, first-born child of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon (died 1511)
Born 1511Stephen Bocskay
Prince of Transylvania (died 1606)
Born 1557Friedrich Spanheim
Dutch theologian and academic (died 1649)
Born 1600Lucius Aelius
adopted son and intended successor of Hadrian (born 101)
138Telemachus
Christian monk and martyr
404Odo I
Frankish king (born 860)
898Ramiro II
king of León and Galicia
951William of Volpiano
Italian abbot (born 962)
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